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title: In 1989, Egypt was designated a major non-NATO ally, but relations s… — Egypt · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1989, Egypt was designated a major non-NATO ally, but relations soured following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, as the Obama administration criticised Egypt's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and suspended joint military exercises. Who acts: relations, Obama administration. A sentence of Wikip
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# Egypt, sentence 261

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From Wikipedia, [«Egypt»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In 1989, Egypt was designated a major non-NATO ally, but relations soured following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, as the Obama administration criticised Egypt's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and suspended joint military exercises.

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**Who acts:** relations, Obama administration · **What happens:** designate, sour, follow, criticise, suspend · **To what, where:** Egypt, 1989, coup d'état, crackdown, Muslim Brotherhood, joint military exercises

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Egypt». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relations, Obama administration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Egypt:261
# text = In 1989, Egypt was designated a major non-NATO ally, but relations soured following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, as the Obama administration criticised Egypt's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and suspended joint military exercises.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	non-NATO	non-nato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	ally	ally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	soured	sour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	coup	coup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	d'état	d'état	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Obama	Obama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	criticised	criticise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
27	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	crackdown	crackdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Brotherhood	Brotherhood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	joint	joint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | past · passive |  | Egypt |  | 1989 |  | a major non-NATO *obj*; ally *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme non-nato=Attribute |
| 2 | **sour** | past | relations |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | relations *not said here* | the coup d'état |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d'état=Theme |
| 4 | **criticise** | past | the Obama administration | Egypt's crackdown |  | the Muslim Brotherhood |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **suspend** | past | the Obama administration *not said here* | joint military exercises |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exercise=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Egypt», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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